Historical
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Leon Werth [Werth, Leon]

Aufresne is washing and polishing his unusable car, which has a leaky piston rod. He prunes a hedge. He knows how to kill a rabbit and turn its skin inside ...
( Category: Memoirs April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-01 | Author:Martha Raddatz

IN THE FRONT of the aid station, Colonel Robert Abrams stared in disbelief at the men lying before him. He’d gunned his Humvee, watching the streaks of tracer fire over ...
( Category: Military April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Carol Off

Ruby in Paris, in 2007. A jumble of sensations and emotions for her. Paris had been a jumble of sensations for Robina. She stayed with other international students at Cité ...
( Category: Historical April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-07 | Author:Byron Farwell

17 WOLSELEY IN ASHANTILAND 1873–74 THROUGHOUT the last half of the nineteenth century cabinet ministers and civil servants tried to rid Britain of her unprofitable colonies on the African west ...
( Category: Europe April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-29 | Author:Harry Truman [Harry Truman]

THE NEXT PRESIDENT worth a lot of respectful attention is Thomas Jefferson, This means, of course, that I’m pretty much skipping over John Adams, the president between Washington and Jefferson, ...
( Category: Americas April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-30 | Author:J. Edward Chamberlin

John Black, the gentleman adventurer into Fort Macleod and the Belly River, authorized by low prices and popular satisfaction to do business with the white subjects and red allies of ...
( Category: Memoirs April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Bates

A SHORT VISIT TO NORMANDY Although it is not mentioned in the literary sources, William and Matilda must have crossed to Normandy in the autumn of 1068 and spent Christmas ...
( Category: Europe April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Ransom [Ransom’s, John]

Oct. 30.—It is said prisoners from main prison are being removed every day, and the sick will go last. Quite a batch of the nearest well ones were sent from ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jon Kukla

A year after Governor Henry crushed Arthur Campbell’s separatist schemes, he was confronted with recurrent skirmishes between Kentucky settlers and Wabash Indians in the Ohio Valley near Vincennes (in modern ...
( Category: Historical April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-07 | Author:Woodrow Wilson

GENERAL WASHINGTON CHAPTER VII MATTERS had not stood still before Boston to await a commander sent by congress. While Washington waited for his commission and made ready for his journey ...
( Category: Historical April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-04-07 | Author:Randall Woods

CHAPTER 24 “THE COUNTRYSIDE OF THE WORLD” FOR MANY PEOPLE, LBJBRINGS TO MIND TWO HISTORI -cal phenomena: the Great Society and Vietnam. For almost everyone, Vietnam was the issue that ...
( Category: Historical April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Mimi Alford [Alford, Mimi]

Chapter Ten “I met someone,” I told the President in the winter of 1963. I said it in a teasing way but also with a note of pride, as I ...
( Category: Historical April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Griffin, Michael [Griffin, Michael]

Auburn, Goldsmith’s literary village, is a nostalgic, utopian depiction of a natural landscape which is home to an organic community. The poem moves knowingly from an integrated past to a ...
( Category: British & Irish April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-07 | Author:Julie M. Fenster

Roosevelt's fever continued during the week, but the progress of the paralysis stopped, just as he was about to lose the use of his hands entirely. As it was, he ...
( Category: Historical April 7,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-08-24 | Author:Karen Tei Yamashita

Vyasa, you would have preferred reference to the Ramayana, but like the Iliad, the Mahabharata is about war, and sadly it is war and its aftermath that here haunts my ...
( Category: Ethnic & National April 7,2018 )